{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-847/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2006/847",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 847/2006 of 8 June 2006 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain prepared or preserved fish",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-847",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 847/2006\nof 8 June 2006\nopening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain prepared or preserved fish\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Decision 2006/324/EC of 27 February 2006 on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Kingdom of Thailand pursuant to Articles XXIV:6 and XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, and in particular Article 4 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nWithin the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Kingdom of Thailand approved by the Council by its Decision 2006/324/EC, provision is made for two new annual tariff quotas for certain prepared or preserved fish.\n(2)\nThe Agreement provides that a certain volume of each tariff quota should be allocated to the Kingdom of Thailand and the remaining part of each tariff quota should be open to imports of all countries.\n(3)\nCommission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code codified the management rules for tariff quotas designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of customs declarations.\n(4)\nCouncil Regulation (EC) No 683/2006 of 27 February 2006 concerning the implementation of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Kingdom of Thailand pursuant to Articles XXIV:6 and XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedules of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the course of their accession to the European Union, amending and supplementing Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, provides for the entry into force of the new tariff quotas four weeks after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, therefore this Commission implementing Regulation should apply from the same date.\n(5)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 120, 5.5.2006, p. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 402/2006 (OJ L 70, 9.3.2006, p. 35)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 120, 5.5.2006, p. 1."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/847/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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